2018-10-23 13:00:05 When I was a kid, the horror was mild, the giggling loud, and the worry left to a minimum. Gypsies and fairies roamed the neighborhood streets at night in unsupervised hoards, gathering sacks of candy, homemade cookies, and…
2018-10-22 13:00:18 Setting is such a vital component of any horror story, to the extent that the place in which the narrative is framed can become a central character. Take, for example, the eponymous building in Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel…
2018-10-21 13:00:41 I believe I was seven years old the first time I went trick-or-treating. Before that I wasn’t much aware of the holiday, and I certainly didn’t connect it with anything scary. I remember kids coming to the door…
2018-10-20 13:00:32 Happy Saturday! Continuing the interview spotlight series, today Halloween Haunts chats with writer/editor Eric J. Guignard, whose debut collection, That Which Grows Wild: 16 Tales of Dark Fiction, was published this past July by Cemetery Dance Publications. Halloween…
2018-10-19 13:00:00 Mitts was dressed as the Fonz, but now lolled at me like Droopy Dog. I couldn’t figure why. We’d decided Halloween was done for us. We were hungrily stuffing our faces.…
2018-10-18 19:02:50Scary Out There recently interviewed Dawn Kurtagich, author of And the Trees Crept In and The Dead House. In this episode of the podcast, Dawn discusses the importance of horror in the world of children’s and YA literature, shares some of her…
2018-10-18 13:00:40 Once I paid for the initial Haunted Mansion Writers Retreat in 2010, I worried what I’d do if the mansion really was haunted. What if things got really bad and I was afraid to sleep? Since I couldn’t…
2018-10-17 13:00:15 Happy Wednesday! Today Halloween Haunts features an interview spotlight with poet Ashley Dioses whose poetry has recently been featured in Weirdbook 41 from Wildside Press and The Audient Void: A Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy (Issue Six).…
2018-10-16 13:00:49 Among the many reasons I became a board-certified hypnotist, hypnosis instructor, and past-life regression therapist, was a life-long fascination with witches. I’d always suspected that my grandmother had been a witch, my aunt had been a witch, and…
2018-10-15 13:00:32 Introduction Year after year, various online periodicals compile lists of the best video games to play during the month of October. Typically, these articles mostly adhere to listing universally renown survival horror titles from popular franchises such as…